Although he led a miserable and lonely life as a shepherd in the wilderness, Moses forgot about his miserable conditions. Thinking of the Israelites toiling under mistreatment by their enemies in Egypt, Moses shed tears of sympathy. You must know this. Moses' lonely state of affairs and his heart touched Heaven deeply. Because Moses was concerned for the sake of Heaven and appeared as a representative concerned for the chosen people, God called Moses again and dispatched him to the palace of the Pharaoh.

This is just like Jacob's course when he went with all his belongings to see Esau after toiling for twenty-one years at the house of Laban in fear of Esau. You should understand that Moses walked a difficult course like that of Jacob.

By setting up Aaron and Miriam, who represented the word, and by showing the works of three great wonders, Moses stepped out to look for the palace of the Pharaoh where Heaven commanded him to go.

What happened then? God did not provide a smooth path for Moses. Instead, someone tried to kill him as he retired to rest. (Exod. 4:24) Again, this is a course similar to that of Jacob. Moses had to go through the circumstances of Jacob wrestling with an angel on the banks of the Jabbok River, impervious to his own injury. Moses was put in that same situation by God. You should know that after going over this kind of trial without a hitch, Moses met the chosen Israelites again and built the altar of Israel on the nationwide level, representing God and the people.

These excerpts from the last sermon of Volume 3 (Resources page) show that mankind has to own the Will of God, even at the risk of death. Also that mankind has to prove their determination to see it through in spite of an attack from God.

Jesus overcame a trial of this kind when he was affirming that God exists at the same time that God was denying Jesus:

Jesus said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46). This was because, as the hero of the restoration of the whole universe, Jesus had to indemnify the fact that Adam, who represented the universe, had betrayed Heaven. Because in this situation Jesus said, "I know God," even as God was saying, "I don't know you," he was able to bring about spiritual resurrection. You must be aware that this kind of crucial historical moment is left for you to overcome too.

If we have the wrong understanding of the restoration providence of God and the crucial element of the Human Portion of Responsibility (with which even God cannot interfere with, or intervene in) then we will fall down in the Last Days. That Christianity has already failed to connect with the 2nd coming of Christ shows that their expectations are seriously skewed. It was shown that the Christian Churches were easily shut down and lumped with non-essential businesses (whatever they are) during the plandemic. Christianity is in need of an upgrade. What better way than to look afresh for the 2nd coming of Christ and connect with the new word and Blessing that he brought.

The evidence that the Lord of the Second Advent came shortly after WW1 can be found two blogs back. St Paul advised to test all things and hold fast to what is good. Awesome advice!

With the 1st amendment rights coming under attack in the present administration in America and dissenting opinions to the official line being suppressed throughout the world it is important that the re-awakening taking place in the wake of these draconian lockdowns, exercise of emergency government powers, and the state asserting that your body and your children are actually owned by the state through the vaccine mandates, will rapidly develop and grow. Evil is on display right now like never before and requires a robust response.

If you don't think that these are the veritable Last Days by now I don't know what further things would need to happen to convince you.

A good comment was left on the last blog by Robert Herring - thank You!

Looking forward to hearing your comments, criticism etc.

​Andrew & Marie Derricutt

Last week I could finish our 720 houses Home Church area and concluded it with delivering a printout of the previous blog to all those who gave me their name. This had a better chart than the blog, with that which appears in the actual book Exposition of the Divine Principle showing the Parallels of History. Almost 80 people had given me their names.

I was surprised by how few people actually engaged with the evidence that I've been presenting since April when I started. I can recognize that it's not easy to look at things from a totally fresh viewpoint. I think that I was able to as I had rejected the accepted truth more than 40 years ago and was actively looking for something that made sense. So, I guess that the people that I'm trying to engage with, in the area where we're living, also need to feel, at a fundamental level, that the currently accepted truth really doesn't work.

It is tempting to take things literally that are described in the Bible but then they don't always make logical sense. For example, Adam and Eve hid themselves when they heard God's footsteps in the garden in the cool of the day right after the Fall of Man. There is a line in Psalms where it talks of the hills dancing with joy. Jesus came to cast fire on the earth and wished that it was already kindled. As you know, in the book of Malachi, it states that Elijah will come before the great and terrible day of the Lord and yet Jesus (no less) stated - if you can accept it - that John the Baptist was the Elijah. This means that the 2nd coming of Elijah occurred through a different person, with a different name. And, in addition, John the Baptist himself negated this claim and never actually followed Jesus.

So the assertion that I'm making - that the Messiah came already, born on the earth (in 1920), means that all ideas about the 2nd coming of Christ would need to be revised. Also our understanding about God would need to be totally revised too. Yet, it's true to say, if you accept Jesus as Messiah/ Christ that is, that the first chosen people made a terrible mistake (and still refuse to accept that); so why couldn't the 2nd chosen people (Christianity) make a similar terrible mistake? 

If things go wrong in our lives then we are more likely to look more closely at what we're doing and are more open to making changes. The present view of many Christians that the rapture will take place is similar to the mindset of a poor person who does the lottery. In the twinkling of an eye everything can be changed. This is why evidence that the Messiah came already more that 100 years ago doesn't sit well with accepted wisdom. The rapture didn't take place in 1920 for one, and the world is still dysfunctional and full of conflict for another.

But those who actually win the lottery usually end up more broke than before they won because they have no preparation in their mind to deal with the seemingly unlimited wealth. In the same way, we need to first rehabilitate our lost relationship with God to make the foundation for true wealth that will never go away.

How many Christians think that God was truly sorrowful at the Fall of Man and has been living in sorrow ever since? How many Christians realize, or think about, how shameful the birth of Jesus was since he was born in a stable? Someone amongst the chosen people should have prepared for the Messiah's coming but yet foreigners did that - the three 'kings' - who travelled a long way and brought gifts. Neither did the chosen people, or Jesus' disciples, carry Jesus' cross, that was done by a foreigner too - Simon of Cyrene.

The rapture and associated way of thinking puts mankind in the ballpark of pets of God. We look after our pets and receive love from them for doing that, but it's a different quality of love than that we can receive from fellow humans. We clean out their living environment from time to time and change the water for our fishes, or replace and renew the place where they do their poop. Is this how we think God regards us? God, after all, is considered to be all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal and absolute.

If we're made in the image of God who is a creator then we must also have the qualities of a creator. This, in fact, sets us apart from the rest of creation. Even the most intelligent animals don't adorn themselves with clothes and jewelry. Jesus being the actual embodiment of truth tried to get the people to believe in him but, since they didn't, he had to couch the truth in figurative language. This has given rise to many church denominations. Also the re-birth that Jesus and the Holy Spirit give cannot be passed on to the children of re-born parents. This should give a clue as to the main purpose of the Messiah's coming. To embody (own) the truth and to give full re-birth.

The 'Fall of Man' story in the Bible shows that the mistake of mankind enabled satan to become the false god, false ruler, of this world. Therefore it makes sense that God cannot drive out satan for us; for to do so would devalue our original position in front of God.. To put it another way, since we (mankind) invited satan in, we (mankind) must drive satan out. We can do this by uniting with and emulating the Messiah who, essentially, is the True Adam. To establish the Messiah (true Adam) is God's responsibility, but to believe in, and connect with, the Messiah is mankind's responsibility.

This may seem to be a novel interpretation and seems to fly in the face of an all powerful God and yet there are clues in the Bible that God cannot force compliance from Mankind. For example God spoke with Cain shortly after the first sacrifices when Abel's was accepted but Cain's was rejected:  Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Gen. 4:6,7 NIV) This speaks of taking personal responsibility, right?

The human portion of responsibility is not given much room in usual Christian thought. But, consider this, if Love is the main purpose of creation and freedom is required in order for Love to exist, then the responsibility that is generated from the choices that are made are a by-product inescapable from that. The quality of Love for both God and mankind must then be necessarily the same for the creation of mankind to have real meaning for God. Otherwise we are God's pets, rather than God's children.

What is taking place throughout the world right now and, especially, in the USA is like a wake up call for us to start to think for ourselves. I am very grateful to hear the Trial for the right to self defence (trial of Kyle Rittenhaus) has resulted in the verdict of 'not guilty' on all counts. This is a sign that 'we the people' are waking up. Satan is being exposed and the apparatus for control and forced compliance is being dismantled. These are clear signs of mankind entering a new era. The era opened by the LSA (Lord of 2nd Advent) is as different from the preceding era as the New Testament era was from the Old Testament era which preceded that. Understanding this new era, formally called 'Era of 4th Adam' by the 2nd advent is in line with the personal taking of responsibility by people on the side of God everywhere. This is why Jesus taught the seeming paradox of those who want to keep their life will lose it, but those who are willing to lose their life will keep it.

Where to look, for the evidence that the 2nd Advent occurred already, is in the previous blog.

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To close: here is an invitation to a workshop next weekend from Richard and Stacey Urban.

Thanking You &, as ever, looking forward to hearing from You!       Andrew & Marie Derricutt

There is evidence that the 2nd coming of Christ manifested by being born on the earth shortly after WW1. To begin to accept that as being true means that all our concepts of Christ are challenged. But it's true to say that the 1st Chosen people missed accepting Jesus as the long awaited Messiah and they're still waiting. Why should it come as a surprise to learn that the 2nd Chosen people (Christianity) have made a similar mistake.

Jesus should have been believed and followed by the people of 2000 years ago but we know that he was not. The disciples who followed Jesus did not really understand Jesus either, as one of the 12 (Judas) betrayed him, the one Jesus called 'the rock' denied him, the three main disciples (Peter, James and John) couldn't stay awake during the serious environment and prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, and a foreigner (Simon of Cyrene) was mustered to  carry the cross of Jesus as all the disciples had run away. The followers of Jesus didn't really start to understand who Jesus was until the Holy Spirit came to them after the death of Jesus on the cross.

The history of the first chosen people has been very harsh and their nation was not recovered until 1948 May 14; and their capital city, Jerusalem, was not recognized until 70 years later (to the day) in 2018. The history of Christianity has been characterized by martyrdom to such an extent as to be surprising even to the Muslims.

What did Jesus come to do? It was to build the kingdom of heaven evidenced by his primary gospel, "repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand". Just as God needs an appropriate response from mankind that was not accomplished as can be seen from Genesis 6:6 - 'The Lord was sorry that He made mankind on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart'; Jesus as the Word made flesh (substantial God if you will) needed an appropriate response from the chosen people. But Jesus lamented that, "I have told you earthly things and you don't believe, how can I speak of heavenly things?" (John 3:12) and, speaking of Jerusalem, "I wanted to gather you together like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not." . . . You did not know the time of your visitation!" (Luke 19:41-44)
The re-birth that Jesus gave cannot be passed on to the children of Christian parents (yet the 1st human ancestors were originally without sin). Would this not be one of the primary reasons for Christ to return? as per Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus in John chapter 3 - to change our lineage from that of the Fall to that of God (as the first human ancestors were before the Fall).
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Another aspect is the revealing of the full truth that Jesus could only explain partly and through figurative speech. You recall that Jesus declared he would do this in John 16:25, "These things I have spoken to you figuratively, but the time is coming (2A of Christ) when I will speak to you plainly of the Father. 

'We the people' of the Last Days will need this plain truth to come into alignment with God's absolute standard and to become as Jesus, the substantialization of God's word. This is the very purpose of creation after all. This makes perfect sense of Genesis 1:27 which states that we (mankind) are made in God's image. And in Jesus' statement that we become perfect as Heavenly Father is perfect. (Matt. 5:48)

The Lord of the 2nd Coming (aka True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind - God's Substantial Self) did give words of truth in plain language in the Peace Messages given in the decades surrounding the new millennium as well as Blessing Ceremonies to give re-birth. He met with the Soviet Leader Mikhail (and Raisa) Gorbachev and the statues of the communist leaders were removed and the Divine Principle teaching was allowed to be taught in Russia. He also met with Kim Il Sung of N Korea and declared the ‘Juche’ ideology to be wrong which deeply shocked the small band of people that travelled with him at that time. 

​If you want to check on the first assertion that the 2nd Advent of Christ was born on the earth shortly after WW1 you will need to do some reading. Here is where to look:
Part 2 of the Exposition of the Divine Principle 'Introduction to Restoration'. This part explains the 'principles of restoration' which have been consistently applied by God to restore mankind to life after the death caused by the Fall of Man. The evidence of this can be checked in your Bible.
Part 2 Chapter 1 'The Providence to Lay the Foundation for Restoration' explains how these principles actually played out as described in the Holy Bible. This chapter should enable you to see your Bible in an entirely new way.
Part 2 Chapter 3 'The Periods in Providential History and the Determination of Their Lengths' shows how the principles of restoration give rise to specific time periods that are in no ways arbitrary. From this can be seen the 'footsteps of God' in history.
Part 2 Chapter 4 'The Parallels between the Two Ages in the Providence of Restoration'. The two ages: are the time from Abraham to Jesus as recorded in the Holy Bible; and the time from Jesus to the 2nd coming of Christ as recorded in the history of Western Europe. The 2nd period is a prolongation caused by the first chosen people's rejection of Jesus (necessitating his return).

Looking forward to hearing from You. 

Let us reason together . . .

Andrew and Marie Derricutt